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Why would your refrigerator have a screen?
Why would you buy such a refrigerator?
Why do gas pumps have screens?
Everyone should know this. Share it.
Hero. There's only one gas station I use that has ads and I'll try it there for sure. I deliberately avoid screened pumps.
Only sometimes. I've seen the mute button be disabled on numerous machines. Worth knowing and trying when the screen is blaring ads at you, but my success rate has been low in muting them.
To display ads.
Especially lately. The screens used to just be for controlling the pump or letting the station show a silent ad or two for products in their convenience store. Or community ads.
NOW THEY BLARE RANDOM ADS AS YOU GAS UP YOUR VEHICLE.
It's bliss after hours when the gas station is about to close and the ads stop. You can pump up in peace. Although when the ads crash the pump, have fun paying for gas.
"because I'm a dumbass"
"because I'm a dumbass"
--dumbass
You ever think you're just not creative and alone?
No
I recall the hype was to keep track of groceries or some such gimmick. I feel it to be unnecessary tech. How convenient that it shows ads. In any case, do not buy a Samsung appliance. They are total shite and will break down on you. Fridges, washing machines, dishwashers. All garbage. The televisions are fine.
Their TVs suck too. The remotes barely respond and they’re bogged down with ad-riddled garbage to the point I had to set up a parental lock just so I wasn’t force-fed trashy, outdated reality TV at 300 decibels when I power the damn thing on. Or worse, when the power goes out and it decides to blast at 3 AM. Unfortunately I didn’t make the choice to buy this thing.
Their phones are also locked down proprietary horse arse. I don’t understand the people who repeatedly pick the brand, but oh well.
I believe with their phones, it is because the hardware is honestly solid compared to much of the competition. Samsung phones (ESPECIALLY during the TouchWiz days) haven't been known for having the best software.
Their TVs on the other hand, a lot of that is because they put underpowered SoCs in the TVs. Their high-end OLEDs are quite good, but that doesn't fix the fact that Tizen is still a little clunky. Samsung LCDs on the other hand, unless you spend over $2,000 on one, tend to be junk, mostly because the backlights are too dim to accurately reproduce content except in a dark room, or because the backlights fail out too soon. You can get much better performance out of something like a TCL or Hisense for the money, as long as you have trust in those brands... being Chinese and all.
Samsung makes good screens they don't make good TV's.
Any company that pushes this shit doesn't deserve your money. Don't buy their TVs.
Most of my groceries are in the pantry not the fridge. This tech was always for people who have a kitchen that is for show and never used.
All electronics are garbage now it's almost like they want you to buy a new one every year.
I'm not a huge fan of my Samsun monitor either actually. There's a lot of stuff in there that I don't want or use, and most of what is in there feels pretty half-assed. Will definitely be trying another brand when it comes to replace it.
Agreed. Bought a washer/dryer set and the washer literally shit out in a year, with repairs costing as much as the purchase. Fuck them.
Samsung Washers haven't had a great reputation. A lot of people I know still recommend purchasing something like a Kenmore or Maytag, or Speed Queen. I have an LG Washer which has been pretty solid, but, yeah... repair costs if you go through a company versus doing it yourself can be insane.
My 10 year old LG Washer, to repair recently, would've cost around $550 for Diagnostic, Repair, and parts if I went through a service center. That is the cost of a new machine. What I needed were new suspension springs (10 years of wear & tear), and a new Sump pump as the motor housing started to leak. About $100 in parts and a half hour of time. Through the repair company, the labor would've been half the cost. The parts? The other half.
Yeah, the suspension is what went out on mine, their part, has to be ordered through them. The repair guy was nice and literally told me that 3/4s the cost was literally the parts because they could only do manufacturer. What's infuriating to me is the fact that older washers didn't have auto balance or suspension. Everything was welded to the frame. Yeah sure it would bounce around a lot but you could easily just stop the washer and rebalance it. My parents washer and dryer were handed down from their parents and lasted 30 years with no issues.
To keep track of groceries? Just I don't know, LOOK inside the fridge. Oh the cabinets and drawers don't have screens, just slap a few of them on there to keep track of that shit too! Why stop at the fridge?
I'm not against my refrigerator having a screen that I can control
But why have a screen at all?
Shopping list, digital post it notes, etc.
People have been sticking important things into fridge doors since there are fridges.
It there was any hope for these being useful that would have integrated with the mobile experience the same way CarPlay did.
These are it a tv screen on a fridge with a channel that is for the fridge, these are all proprietary junk that it's the antithesis for a smart home because they control it not the home owner.
Because not everything important is digital.
Magnetic whiteboard
You carry a phone that supports these features in your pocket. Fridges don’t need screens imho
Blah blah blah, I don't like the form factor so it's unneeded. You people are insufferable.
Guess what, it is easier to look directly forward on an always on screen that's going to have a common display like a family calendar of events for that day while I'm preparing my family for the day. I don't have to find and unlock my phone, I don't have to wash my hands and open up a calendar app. It's right there, front and center, where it needs to be for the task.
Not everyone has their reflection burned into the screen holding them all day. Some people actually leave them in other rooms!
Yes, some of us go screen to screen and therefore need screen on every appliance in our house! /s 😆
This is not untrue haha, however it's usually a more productive use of the screen at least 🤣.
But then you need to use cloud services to sync with your family/roommates/etc. Not everyone lives alone.
So how are you gonna access the shopping list on the fridge when you are in the store (without using cloud services)? Taking a screenshot of sticky notes on the fridge works as good as taking a screenshot of the fridge screen. So in both cloud connected and not clod connected scenarios, the fridge screen is not needed and functions as a gimmick.
For just $15.99/month/user, you can store up to one thousand bytes of text in our super unsecured cloud service, and access it remotely with our Galaxy Pro Platinum Gold Fold Unfold Refold Defold Sync Edition!
*unavailable with any other devices, only available on our latest halo product, when we release the Galaxy PPGFURDSE 2026 in 3 months your device will become unavailable to sync with the fridge. Only available in 2, 3, and 5 year subscriptions, but we will kill the service after 17 months, no refunds.
Samsung. Because fuck you~.
Tablet is more flexible.
I would love a monitor on my fridge (it'd be better than most of the dusty old shit on mine right now. ) But I would want to have complete control of the hardware attached to that screen
I hope a DIY mod community springs up to help people take back the machines they own.
Family calendar is the big one. I also watch YouTube and sports while cooking.
I agree. Speding an additional $1000 for that feature is so much better than a piece of paper and a Spongebob Squarepants magnet.
It is better than a paper calendar, it does AV as well which is fantastic if I'm trying to watch sports and cook, and the feature isn't 1k. Sucks to suck and have to make up little stories.
Forced ads is stupid. The feature is fantastic you grumpy lonely old man 🤣.
Good god you're dumb. Enjoy your ads I guess.
Don't have them 👍
If only there was some less ridiculous or wasteful way of keeping a calendar on a fridge, like a white board or something. Its too bad in the history of fridges that there was no way to keep a calendar on it, its just impossible to
Fuck man, why even have digital calendars at ALL?!!! Let's just destroy computers, absolutely no need for this shit.
Ignoring the other useful users, my partner and I forward events from our work schedules when something pops up, the school sends an entire month of events which gets directly imported. The soccer team sends out the same shit.
God forbid I spend .23% of my yearly salary not having to sync calendar dates and be able to watch sports when cooking.